Contrary to the city's propagandist press conference, fireworks aren't all that dangerous. Exploding firework factories? Absolutely. |NY1|
Evidence of Windows sucking displayed to the world. |Gothamist|
Al Sharpton gets honorable "Extortion King" designation from rapper. |Nahright|
Neo-con predictions: "[E]xperts put the chances of a nuclear attack on US soil, probably on Washington or New York, in the next 10 years as fifty-fifty." |CrunchyCon|
Comic book nerds will never get lost again with this: Atlas of the DC Universe. |IO9|
Photo: |CA Bray|
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After unveiling her head, creature combining artisan Nate Hill gives his lovely 
Trying to hop on both the user generated content and virtual graffiti trends simultaneously, dope slinging movie The Wackness designed this stuporous online graffiti 'Throw Down' contest. All the entries must not only include the title of the movie, but its release date too. Anyway, the whole thing sucks worse than BMW's attempt and even though we could care less about the music, has got nothing on PaintThatShitGold. Plus, what the fuck is Brickfish and why should users have to sign in just to submit an entry? Shockingly, despite the wackness, they still somehow managed to entice over 700 kids with way too much time and way too little cerebral activity to contribute to this fake graffiti gallery, making this sucky little scheme a success—for Sony at least. ]]>
Ron English isn't the only artist sponsored by Ray-Ban. Here's Tara McPherson's flying bunnies banner as part of the brand's "Project Colorize" aka using art to sell multicolored sunglasses concept. ]]>
What better way to celebrate the holiday than by surveying the twenty most anti-American album covers of our time? From rappers to rockers, musicians have used their album art to metaphorically give the middle finger to whatever oppressive regime to which we are currently enslaved. Anti-Flag's A New Kind of Army turned soldiers raising the flag on Iwo Jima into mohawked punks. Smashing Pumpkins drowned the Statue of Liberty in a sea of blood. And The Coup bombed the World Trade Center before bin Laden. A week and a half ago, The Coup's Boots Riley got busted for dropping the F-bomb on stage in Norfolk, Virginia. Freedom of speech, indeed. Happy Fourth of July, suckers. ]]>
In a piss poor attempt to show how neutral and free thinking they are, the graffiti soaked kids over at Bombin' Magazine tried their hand at parodying Shepard Fairey's now iconic 'HOPE' campaign poster for Obama with disastrous results. Their posters feature a McCain-looking guy with the words "Independent" and "Experience not Propaganda" crammed into the bottom. Considering that the old man has already been used by News Corpse in basically the same capacity, not to mention a long line of other parodies—ours included—this thing falls flat as the as image itself. Plus their official, grammatically incorrect statement about how this poster was designed to help people "study the candidate objectively" is pure bullshit, as they conclude with the real reason for creating it: "Oh yeah, and consider these posters one giant middle finger raised to Shephard Fairey. How does it feel to have your worked jacked? Can you see me now?" ]]>
The New York City Health Department has put out a casting call for a new abstinence campaign--and they're looking for a few good mimes to spread the message against having sex. Perhaps prompted by recent news that one in four New Yorkers carry the herpes virus, the Department of Health has taken a decidedly "hands off" approach to sex in the city. Don't do it. And if you can't mime not doing it, forget about it. Or, as the call puts it: "If you do not have professional Mime experience DO 
The New York Times has an op-ed piece about using YouTube to fight Al Qaeda's, increasingly popular "brand" of viral video terror or something: "The genius of Al Qaeda was to combine real-world mayhem with virtual marketing. The group’s guerrilla media network supports a family of brands, from Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (in Algeria and Morocco) to the Islamic State of Iraq, through a daily stream of online media products that would make any corporation jealous." We didn't actually read the whole thing through, getting more transfixed on this eBoy-like pixel version of Osama bin Laden. |